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Lady Gaga is the hottest artist at the moment. However, you either love her music or find her performance disgusting. I do hear that her image and performances being over the top is a bad influence to younger children, and of course this is more of an opinion from the older group. As for some younger people, they love Gaga they think she has got all the energy in the world, her performance and music are great. So what do you think?

I am quite neutral, I don’t care much about the performance, but I do enjoy 2 of her latest hits – Poker face (won an award in 52nd grammy) and Bad romance. I think they are great for disco dancing. We just had a gala dinner for all the pre-reg pharmacist trainee in Bristol, and the best thing was to have Gaga’s song on and you can see everyone loved it, and is full of energy on the dance floor

Gaga is an American record artist, born on 28th March 1986 in New York. Her debut album, The Fame, was released on August 19, 2008. The fame has received many positive reviews and has reached number 1 in Canada, Austria, Germany, and Ireland and came in top for the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart. The 2 singles ‘Just dance’ and ‘Poker Face’ became international number 1 hits, which later earned 6 Grammy Award nominations and won best dance album and best dance recording.
In late 2009, she released ‘The Fame Monster’ her 2nd studio album, with the global chart-topping lead single “Bad Romance”

The list of songs in The Fame Monster album

01. Bad Romance
02. Alejandro
03. Monster
04. So Happy I Could Die
05. Speechless
06. Dance In The Dark
07. Telephone (Feat. Beyonce)
08. Teeth

Cd 2
01. Just Dance
02. Love Game
03. Paparazzi
04. Poker Face
05. I Like It Rough
06. Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)
07. Starstruck (Feat. Space Cowboy & Flo Rida)
08. Beautiful, Dirty, Rich
09. The Fame
10. Money Honey
11. Boys Boys Boys
12. Paper Gangsta
13. Brown Eyes
14. Summerboy
15. Vanity
16. Again Again
17. Disco Heaven
18. Big Girl Now
19. Christmas Tree
20. Retro, Dance, Freak

Lady Gaga has officially announced to extend her Monster Ball Tour, through the U.K due to overwhelming response, adding new UK dates in Birmingham 28th May, London- 30th May and Manchester – 1st June.
Lady Gaga will be heading towards New Zealand 1st beginning the 13th of March and 14th of March then head to next destination – Australia where she will be there from 17th March until 9th April, covering most parts of Australia. Then to Japan for a couple of days, and finally to the Europe and England, the tour will end early June! For those who are interested, whichever part of the country you are in, be sure to buy your tickets as early as you can to secure a seat.

Lady Gaga – Monster Ball Tour tickets on Aloud.com

The updates for American Idol S9 Ep19 are up, hop on to my TV blog to get more information. In today’s performance, I absolutely fell in love with Lacey Brown’s voice. I have always liked her, but she sang exceptionally well today, her best performance so far, agreed by the judges including Simon. Once again, she made me liked a song I am not very farmiliar with called ‘ The Story ‘ by Brandi Carlile, the original singer. 

Here is a few songs I thought were quite good by Brandi Carlile Please enjoy these clips I found on youtube, that comes with lyrics. I dont know about you, but during my spare time, I definately enjoy singing along, so the lyrics on the screen is very convenient Yes I love to sing, but Im not a born talent, just enjoy it as a past time. Anyone out there enjoys having their own karaoke at home, maybe with some friends?? Any good songs to recommend?

Brandi Carlile’s The story

Brandi’s Closer to you

Brandi’s Have you ever

What do you think of her music? I think my favourite is still ‘The Story’ the other songs sound similar, but not as good as the story

I’m very impressed with Alex Lambert from S9 American Idol who performed John Legend’s song ‘everybody knows’. He sang so well that it sounded good eventhough it was my 1st time listening to that song. Such ashame I did not know John Legend has such great songs! I did the usual thing after watching AI, went looking up John Legend’s music. I quite like the song, listening to it over and over again at the moment, hope to share the youtube link I found with those who have not heard his music before. He did win an award too in the 52nd Grammy. Let me know what you think. You probably have heard it before, maybe its me who is so outdated

Just a little background about John Legend.

His birth name is actually John Stephens, but better known as John Legend, he is born in Springfield, Ohio,United States on the 28^th Dec 1978. His music genres include Soul, Neo soul and R&B.He is a singer, song writer, multi-instrumentalist, and an actor! He plays the piano and the keyboard. One of his earlier albums, Get Lifted, released in Dec 2004, debuted at no. 7 on Billboard 200, sold 3 million copies worldwide.

 His second album Once Again, release in Oct 2006, and boast production from Kanye West, Raphael Saddiq. This album contains his favourite song ‘Again’ which was written by him whilst sitting in a subway.

He released his 3^rd album Evolver in Oct 2008. He said ‘”Well I think people sometimes come to expect certain things from certain artists. They expect you to kind of stay in the same place you were at when you started out. Whereas I feel I want my career to be defined by the fact that I’m NOTgoing to stay in the same place, and that I’m always going to try new things and experiment, thus came up with the title Evolver. His song Green Light surprised many fans, because the song is a lot more upbeat than most people think John is.

Track List

1. Good Morning Intro
2. Green Light (feat. Andre 3000)
3. It’s Over (feat. Kanye West)
4. Everybody Knows
5. Quickly (feat. Brandy) 
6. Cross The Line
7. No Other Love (feat. Estelle) 
8. This Time
9. Satisfaction 
10. Take Me Away
11. Good Morning
12. I Love, You Love 
13. If You’re Out There

The 52nd Grammy Award took place at Staples Centre in LA, California, on January 31st 2010. The award winners included Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Black Eyed Peas, Jay-Z, Kings of Leon, Colbie Caillat, Eminen, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Maxwell, Jason Mraz, Rihanna and others. 

Beyoncé won a total of six awards breaking the record for most wins in one night. Taylor Swift won four while the Black Eyed Peas, Jay-Z and Kings of Leon won three. Artists who won two awards include Colbie Caillat, Eminem, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Maxwell, Jason Mraz, A. R. Rahman and Rihanna.

Taylor Swift’s Fearless was awarded the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Swift’s first Album of the Year award in her career. “Use Somebody” by rock band Kings of Leon won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, while “Single Ladies” by songwriters Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash and Christopher Stewart, was honored with Grammy Award for Song of the Year – wikipedia.

GENERAL

Song of the year

1. Lady Gaga – Poker face  2. Maxwell – Pretty wings  3. Beyonce -Single ladies  4.  Kings of Leon – Use somebody  5.  Taylor Swift – You belong with me 

Enjoy! Please leave a comment what you think of the 5 songs of the year. I personally llike Poker face and you belong to me, not so much of other 3. How about you?

Album of the year

1.  I am … Sasha Fierce – Beyonce  2. The E.N.D – Black eyed peas   3. The fame – Lady Gaga  4. Big whiskey and the Googrux king – Dave Matthews band  5.  Fearless – Taylor Swift

Record of the year

1.  Halo – Beyonce  2. I gotta feeling – Black eyed peas  3. Use somebody – Kings of Leon  4.  Poker Face – Lady Gaga  5. You belong with me – Taylor Swift

POP

Best female pop vocal performance

1.  Hometown Glory – Adele  2. Halo – Beyonce  3. Hot N Cold – Katy Perry  4. Sober – Pink   5. You belong with me – Taylor Swift 

For other 2 songs-katy perry and taylor swift,  please refer to previous post

Best male pop vocal performance

1.  This time – John Legend  2. Love you – Maxwell  3.  Make it mine – Jason Mraz  4.  If you dont know me by know -  Seal  5. All about the love again – Stevie Wonder

I am also loving Jason Mraz music. Especially the song ‘Im Yours’, absolutely yum. Anyone listening to it at the moment? I wonder if AI Aaron Kelly can sing this song, I’d like to hear someone from AI this season to sing this would be nice to watch if any of them can pull off well with this song, I bet it would be hard to be compared to Jason Mraz  

Jason Mraz is an American singer and song writer, born in Virginia. His music genres include reggae, pop, rock, jazz, and hip hop. He is of Czech descent through his grandfather who moved to the states in 1915. He studied musical theatre before moving to San Diego, then owned an avocado farm in SD.

I’m yours - single from his 3rd studio album ‘we sing. we dance. we steal things’ peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Mraz his first top ten single. This album is his highest-peaking album so far. The song was a huge success, the sales went well over 3 million!  Jason Mraz also won two awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 52nd Grammy Award 2010, with the songs Make It Mine and Lucky.

I came across a video clip of a guy and a girl singing duet of this song, surprisingly they were quite good. Check this out, i found them quite cute

Trying to think who’s music I should put on my blog today? It has got to be someone I like, and the music has to be great, if not I wouldn’t be proud to share it with you :) So who’s that person on my mind? Are you ready to find out?…
Well, that special one is Michael Lee johns, an Australian, who joined the American idol 2 years ago, in season 7, together with david cook and david archuleta. Does his name ring a bell?? U got to remember him! One big fuss was made when Michael was eliminated from the competition, even the judges thought he left too early, at least Simon thought so. He finished with 8th place. I strongly agree that he shouldn’t be voted out so early, anyway if he was still in, I think he would have made it to top 3. Btw, I thought his bohemian rhapsody was one of his best, if you have not heard his version during the audition, please do now! It’s better than queen’s version, in my oppinion.

My favourite singer in that season was actually Michael Johns. When he left AI, I started searching all about him. He is a singer and song writer, I found out he had his own band before he joined AI, and there is one song that I like very much. I found his song on youtube, I would like to share it here with you. It is called Q when he was still in the band Film. I think the way he sings, is so cool. Look at the way he hold his mic! Love him, I like the way he is so low profile, down to earth guy, who seemed very laid back as well, no fears whatsoever. Maybe that was the reason why he was eliminated? Not desperate enough to win? Haha.. I have no idea what went wrong then. Ooh btw, he is 6 foot 3!! I know that is very random

 
For those who are now interested in his music, here is a little information about him. He is born on 20th oct 1978, in perth, Australia, he moved to USA in 1998, on a tennis scholarship and majored in drama in a college in Tifton. He lived in Atlanta, Georgia for 6 years, and he constantly performs locally. Then he went to LA and formed a rock band ‘the rising’ after he left the previous band Film. And that is when he met his long term girlfriend Jill stephens. That was history. He is now married to Texan wife, Stacey Vuduris, and currently living in LA, California.

So what is he doing at the moment? Oh yes, that’s right!  A new album!  He has recently released a single called heart on my sleeve, and the album – hold back my heart in 2009. I have just listen to the songs in the new album, it is not bad, check out heart on my sleeve, it is a nice song from Mich. He managed to sell 20,000 copies of this, well done mich!!

When I was in st Austell during the weekend hanging out with my friends, one of them were playing the old boy band songs non-stop, which included Westlife, Backstreet boys, N sync etc. It reminded me of my childhood days, when I was a crazy fan of westlife!! I remember going to their concert, and paying the highest price to get the front seats, and standing up on the chair, screaming my lungs out at Kian Egan and Nicky Bryne, my 2 favourites, but they were the 2 least talented singers within the entire group. Anyway those were the days man, it makes me laugh when I think back. I still listen to their songs at times, but not as much now, but  I can still sing most of their songs without looking at the lyrics!! haha. Anyone listens to westlife? who is your favourite?

For those who are not farmiliar with westlife, they are an Irish boy band, who started out having 5 members – Shane, Mark, Bryan, Nicky, and Kian. Now only 4 members, Bryan has left the group a few years ago. Shane is the main singer, followed by Mark. They were the boy band who sang ‘If I let you go’, ‘Swear it again’, ‘Flying without wings’ in their 1st album and it made them famous. Ronan Keating was their manager when they 1st came out as  a band, that was when Bryan Mc Fadden was still around. Now Simon Cowell is their manager. Do you know westlife has been around for 10 years now! Aren’t they great? Not many boy bands can stay strong and be around for a long time. But I guess westlife is an exceptional case. Some people may find their songs boring, but I find it really nice to sing along, very light and soothing. Great for karaoke

Westlife has release a new album called Where We Are . Has anyone heard their new album?

Leave me a comment to let me know if you like their latest song, where we are